Her observations and perspective are unique and powerful. This is a funny, compassionate and inspiring story of how 'being different' can become, with the right attitude, an unlikely advantage. Also, it's bloody funny and touching

A cheerful optimistic belly-laugh broadside at prejudice and a wonderful testament to the power of “being funny”, I love Francesca Martinez

A wonderful read! Warm, funny and unforgettable

A very, very important [book] ... I can’t think of a work that has so brilliantly expressed how a person disabled from birth sees herself

As entertaining as it is moving ... this book is a wonderful, funny, warm coming-of-age memoir about finding your own path in life. Long may she wobble. Five stars.

It is honest and refreshing but most of all it is bloody funny. What the **** is normal anyway?

A comedian brilliantly captures how a person disabled from birth sees herself

Morrissey's Autobiography is brilliant and relentless. Genius, really

Well, so far Morrissey's book is an absolute masterpiece; no doubt the whole stinking country will hate it.

This is the best book ever. Like ever

Carried along on quite extraordinary prose

The Best Music Biog Ever ... In the world of rock autobiographies, Morrissey's is nigh-on perfect

Practically every paragraph has a line or two that demands to be read aloud to the mirror, tattooed on foreheads, carved on tombstones

Morrissey is a pop star of unusual writing talent

Autobiography is a rich and substantial work, the figure emerging at its centre both compelling and complex. Those who know his music will be unsurprised by the qualities of Morrissey's prose, which is ornate, windswept, elusive yet never tricksy, and full of unexpected twists and thrusts. He writes with understanding (albeit often with a tout comprendre c'est rien pardonner caveat) and is most of all straightforwardly moving; never more so than when writing about his childhood

Autobiography doesn't disappoint. In its pages Morrissey manages to perform the neat trick of deconstructing his own myth while at the same time adding to it. Old scores are settled and anyone who ever crossed the singer is neatly decapitated herein by withering, barbed prose. Things could have gone very differently for Morrissey. He could have ended up cleaning canal banks or delivering the post for a living. Both of these outcomes would have left the world a far duller place. Autobiography is the man in his own words and, Morrissey being Morrissey, this means that we are presented with an account that is real and fantastic, unapologetically romantic and brutally honest. The die-hard fans have read the book already but for anyone with even a passing interest in what makes one of the most individual and unflinching voices in British pop music tick, Autobiography is essential

Defiantly populist ... Dominic Sandbrook zestfully charts the route that has taken Britain from 'workshop of the world' to 'cultural superpower' ... as Sandbrook rightly insists, 'we still live in the shadow of the Victorians

Brilliant.

An engaging and very accessible history book about our modern artistic achievements that, provocatively, also debunks some of the very icons it praises.